Boho Birch Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Boho is very on-trend right now. If you’ve been to Pinterest, you’ve already seen tons of examples of this pretty style, often including: touches of nature, wild flowers, feathers and pops of gold.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make super-realistic bark textures using your own homemade-molds, how to make pretty Boho style flowers including: the Juliet rose, miniature roses, pepper berries and leaves. You’ll also learn how to make realistic deer antlers which are also very on-trend right now. The perfect cake for a baby shower or birthday.

2:10:54 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

How to create a variety of flowers, leaves and berries including the Juliet rose, miniature roses and pepper berries

Liz Marek’s technique to create hyper-realistic birch

Learn how to sculpt deer antlers to elevate your boho cakes to another level

A cool technique to create stunning, realistic gold bird feathers

Tutorial Chapters

Getting started with gumpaste supplies 1:44

Making the Juliet rose center 3:44

Creating the center petals 12:00

Creating the second row of petals 17:10

Assembling Juliet rose 20:04

Making the miniature rose center 24:48

Miniature rose outer petals 29:18

Filler thin leaves 31:42

Making rose leaves 36:52

Creating the filler feathers 39:24

Dusting the Juliet roses 44:58

Dusting miniature roses 48:42

Dusting the rose leaves 52:11

Watercolor leaves 56:04

Creating the pepper berries 58:46

Golden feathers 1:00:10

Building antler structure 1:01:52

Sculpting antlers 1:12:46

Painting the antlers 1:21:13

Making birch molds 1:29:11

Covering the cake 1:32:59

Adding bark texture 1:37:08

Painting and Texturing 1:45:08

Food safety tips 1:57:24

Placing antlers and flowers 1:59:35

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